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...January, as a calculated harassment, the Russians announced that the regular Soviet passes issued to Allied missions in East Germany were no longer valid. Instead, the Russians offered new passes co-stamped by the Soviets' puppet East German state. The U.S. refused to be drawn into a trap that would amount to recognizing the legal existence of the so-called German Democratic Republic, and the battle of the passes began. Britain, France and the U.S. retaliated by ordering the twelve-man Russian missions in their zones not to venture out of town...
...young Russian sailors were fairly crude. A storm on Jan. 17 had torn landing craft No. 36 from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made no attempt to ration their food and had eaten it all in the first 16 days...
...heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint in his eye. The boys' joint mission, he tells Janet, is to trap two svelte spies at a local Chinese restaurant. Enter a pair of bosomy blonde show girls. "What do you girls do?" asks Tony gingerly. "They sing and dance-like rabbits," answers owlish Dean...
...thieves in Texas, pursued minor thugs in Oklahoma, finally became chief investigator for the Chicago area and made the headlines when he bungled a 1934 Wisconsin showdown with Public Enemy John Dillinger (G-men shot two innocent men, killing one), but got Dillinger three months later in a trap outside a Chicago theater, also led the posse that shot down Pretty Boy Floyd; by his own hand (pistol); in Florence...
...ABOUT THE CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED OF JORDAN. THE INTENSE SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA AND POLITICAL RIVALRIES IN THE AREA ARE TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND A BREAKTHROUGH TO SMEAR WITH FALSE RUMORS H. M. KING HUSSEIN AND HIS MOST BENEVOLENT AND SUCCESSFUL MONARCHY. THIS, I AM SORRY TO SAY, IS THE TRAP INTO WHICH YOUR REPORTERS HAVE BLINDLY FALLEN. I THINK IF THEY HAD INVESTIGATED MORE CAREFULLY THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND EMIR MOHAMMED IS AS RESPONSIBLE AND NO MORE ROWDY THAN AN AVERAGE 19-YEAR-OLD ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD...